Located at the corner of 83 Street and 89 Street in the oldest residential area of Buca, Dumlupınar Neighborhood, Buca Dumlupınar Mosque is also known as Albanian Mosque. According to some sources, there were no mosques in the Buca Dumlupınar Neighborhood, where mainly non-Muslim citizens resided until the early years of the Republic, before 1922 […]
Located on Buca Erdem Street, the Italian Capuchin Catholic Priest School was built between 1881 and 1883. Buca Priest School continued to function until 1935, the school and the land were transferred for the public. Today, the public land and the Priest School are used as a girls’ dormitory. Capuchins, first created by a Catholic […]
Although the exact year of construction is unknown, House of Nuns is located at the corner of Dumlupınar Neighborhood, the oldest neighborhood of Buca, at the intersection of 79th and 88th streets.House of Nuns, which is thought to have been built by the Capuchins Monastery in the early 1850s, was thought to be used as […]
St. Baptist Latin Church (DOM), is a magnificent structure which was built by local Catholics living in Buca in 1815, not affiliated with any other church but directly with Vatican. Also known as Buca DOM Church or St. Baptist Latin Church, St. Jean Baptist Latin Catholic Church was developed and converted to “the DOM Church” […]
St. John Baptist Church is one of the most impressive architectural structures of Buca. The church is still actively open for worship, is considered a cultural heritage value that carries a lot of information about the regarding bygone era of Buca and Izmir. The building was built as a small chapel in 1834 so that […]
Muradiye Mosque is one of the oldest places of worship in Buca. Muradiye Mosque is located in the Dumlupınar District, where you can easily observe the historical past of Buca and is located in the garden of the Greek Orthodox church of Agios Ioannis Prodromos Church, which was built at the same point in 1797. […]